vast difference

collocation in English

meaningsofvastanddifference

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vast
adjective
uk
/vɑːst/us
/væst/
extremely ...
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difference
noun
uk
/ˈdɪf.ər.əns/us
/ˈdɪf.ɚ.əns/
the way in which two or more things which you are comparing are not ...
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(Definition ofvastanddifferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But there is avastdifferencebetween adequate evidence and compelling evidence.
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Thisvastdifferenceoccurs in relation to a question which is neither vague nor hypothetical.
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I suspect that there is avastdifferencebetween the two.
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I wish he would understand thevastdifferencebetween that proposal and this.
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I do not think that it made avastdifferenceto the other place.
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All should realise that there is avastdifferencein industry to-day compared with pre-war industry.
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In any of the 14 categories there is avastdifferencebetween the proportion qualifying and the proportion not qualifying.
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He knows as well as we do that there is avastdifferencebetween the two.
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We are not going to make avastdifferenceby converting the last quarter to machine cutting.
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There is avastdifferencebetween those words and the words "joint negotiating panel of trade unions", which deal with registered organisations.
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But there is avastdifferencebetween deciding an area where there should be a blanket certificate and examining specific and individual children.
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The pocket radio in particular, now almost universal, has made avastdifference.
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There is avastdifferencein attitude between employees of nationalised industries and employees of private enterprise.
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He pointed out thevastdifferencemade by the constant change in height.
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We must recognise that there is avastdifferencebetween the civil servant and the ordinary employé—the employé of an ordinary industrial or commercial undertaking.
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In this case, there is avastdifferencein the procedure.
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It made avastdifferencein the whole of our shipping business.
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There is avastdifferencebetween what £16 a week means in one part of the country and another.
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There is avastdifferencebetween temperance and being a teetotaller.
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As has1 already been remarked, there is avastdifferencein the ease.
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